Books, Kids, Cats, and Chocolate

How do you move kids from research to writing straight informational text to adding narrative devices to enrich their writing? That's what Kristen Nordstrom and I will be showing at the California Reading and Literature Project's Summer Literacy Workshop at California Lutheran University on June 19 (tomorrow!). We'll be doing some hands-on with participants and sharing strategies for the writing process and classroom management used with first graders. We'll also show the kids' final results. If this can be done in first grade, it can be done in any grade! Stay tuned for a follow-up on this pairing of a children's author with a classroom teacher.

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Alexis loves to play with words and find out more about how the world works. The result so far? Picture books for kids and nonfiction articles in kids' magazines. And she's working on many more writing projects, too!